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Article: LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.(Letters Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2008
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Science theory isn't speculation
Virginia Paul (letters, June 17) would have us believe that she knows something about science.
If that were true, she would know that a scientific theory is not speculation or something not proven. In science, for something to be a theory, it must be testable, capable of predicting future observations and consistent with empirical observations.
In other words, a scientific theory is something that has been sufficiently proven, rather the opposite of her definition. Scientifically, the theory of evolution is as solidly grounded as atomic theory, the germ theory of disease, and ...